''READ Magazine'' was a children's classroom magazine for grades 6–10, published by Weekly Reader Corporation. It included a mix of classic and contemporary

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and

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, including

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s, personal

narratives A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narra ...

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, and more to help build reading comprehension and verbal skills. The headquarters was in

Delran, New Jersey Delran Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 16,896, reflecting an increase of 1,360 (+8.8%) from the 15,536 counted in the 2000 Census, whic ...

. It was based in

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, and was published on a biweekly basis at the end of the 1980s. ''READ'' had 15 printed issues and 3 electronic issues per publishing year, and featured the work of a number of illustrators, including Alex Bradley, Noma Bliss, and many others. The final issue was published May 2012, Vol. 61 No. 10. Weekly Reader Corporation was bought by Scholastic in Spring 2012, and thereafter ceased to exist.

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